The Useless Character of Harry Potter

Josephine josie421 at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 11 21:09:22 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 69582

Craig:
> I think that Harry would agree with you...yet everyone in the book 
> tends to see things different.  All the characters choose Harry to 
> teach DA behind the other teachers backs...why, because he is the 
> hero.  He, in the end, is the one that has finished off all these 
> situations they have been in.  Who killed the basalisk, who won the 
> triwizard tournement, who stoped LV from getting the SS, who fought 
> LV after Cedric died, who has kept the Gryffindor Quidditch team 
> winning, who was able to take the pain of Umbridges quill when 
> everyone else wanted to run and tell the other teachers.  Harry has 
> a lot more character than you give him credit for, and I think will 
> continue to develop even more as he goes along.  No other character 
> has had to deal with as much adversity as Harry has had too.  
> 
> Now if Harry would have been stuck living with the Dursleys then 
> that would have made a useless character.  Harry has achieved a lot 
> of things in his life with the help of other people, but no hero 
> ever does it alone.
> 
> 


Of course Harry is the hero. That's what I dislike about him. I never 
like the heroes, that's just plain personal preference. I do not, and 
have never, denied what young Potter has done. 

J






More information about the HPforGrownups archive